BODY TEMPERATURE
What is the average body temperature?
98.6
What is something you use to measure your heart rate?
A pulse-ox
What are the names of all the vital signs?
Body temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, blood pressure.
Where do you put the pulse-ox?
On your finger.
What is respiration?
The action of breathing
What body temperature should you be hospitalized at?
104
Whats an average heart rate for an adult?
60-100 beats per minute.
Where do you feel for someones pulse?
Radial artery.
what does SpO2% stand for and what does the little hart stand for
SpO2% stands for oxygen level and the little hart stands for pulse or BPM.
Why is respiration important?
The oxygen we breath helps us break down food that gives us the energy to survive.
How do you read a one use thermometer?
You find the last black dot and read the number to the left and go back .Then read the one on top.
What does heart rate tell you?
How much your heart beats per minute.
Why are vital signs so important?
It allows medical people to assess any problems quickly.
What does pulse-ox stand for?
Pulse oximeter.
What does respiration do?
Exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide.
Why does your body temperature go up when you have a fever?
Your body temperature goes up because it is trying to kill the sickness. The reason is because viruses can't duplicate when the temperature is too warm.
How do you measure your heart rate?
Why are vital signs important?
Gives health care providers clues about how you are doing.
What conditions might you have to need to use a pulse-ox?
Asthma, lung cancer, anemia, COPD, pneumonia, cardiac arrest, heart failure.
How does respiration work?
Inhale and exhale
Why do we put the thermometer under our tongue?
The blood flow is at its peak here.
Why is it important to drink water?
It improves blood oxygen circulation throughout the body and without it your blood flow would be very slow causing headaches and other problems.
What do vital signs show?
Essential body functions.
Why is it important to know what your pulse-ox is?
To check at home your beats per minute and and your oxygen level if you have a condition.
Why do you need oxygen for your heart to beat?
Using oxygen helps the body work less to achieve normal goals.